Tough action promised by new health and social care regulator

The chair of a new 'super-regulator' for health and social care has vowed to take tough action against organisations that do not meet the required standards.

Baroness Young is chair of the new Care Quality Commission (CQC), which replaces the Healthcare Commission, the Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Mental Health Act Commission.

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All dentists, GPs, hospitals, care homes and mental health trusts will be registered with the CQC and it will have enhanced enforcement powers, such as measuring all NHS bodies against a whole range of quality criteria.

'Over the next year we are going to have increasing regulation of providers and a very different system for doing it,' the baroness revealed.

She added that the regulatory body would work to ensure that people do not 'fall through the gaps' and that the public has access to information on the services in their local area.

Baroness Young is set to speak at a reception to launch the CQC tonight (April 1st), at which she is expected to declare the body a 'modern, proportionate and responsive' regulator.

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